KDE2 does allow more customization, but I found it a bit disconcerting that
a nice user-level feature like the Theme Manager was removed. Was nice to
play around and see what happened with different themes. Also, seems many
folks thought this was a Mandrake lack in 7.2, as opposed to a change in
KDE2. There is an app in the menu system called "Legacy Theme Importer". I
haven't had much luck with it, but I didn't pursue it too much. This topic
has been brought up a few times on this list since 7.2 was released, but I
haven't seem too many responses describing success stories in bringing in
old themes.
philomena
At 03:55 PM 12/5/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 05 December 2000 07:12 am, Marcia wrote:
> > Dear All, I just asked about the theme manager, also, but so far no
> > one has answered. I , too, loved the way the thememanager worked in
> > 7.0. I am disappointed about the absence of it in 7.2. Was this an
> > oversight?
>
> Well i usually shy away from these questions cause i believe the
>answer is readily discernable/available... but what t'hey
>
> From my perspective, KDE2 allows much more customization than KDE1
>did, even tho it currently lacks but a few third party themes and the
>planned future manager.
>
> In Control Center , there are already different themes:
> Look 'N Feel | Style | Widget Style and theme
>
> Then in | Colors, you can further customize any theme you chose above
>
> Then by r-clicking on any Windows title bar you can change the
>borders, 'Decoration', several choices, like 'system ++' for example
>
> 'Course, you can use any pic file for backgrounds, just put them in
>/home/tom/.kde/share/wallpapers/AngelBoris.jpg
>. ^^^ your 'user' dir ^^^^^^^^^^^ YMMV, but I'm in love ;>
> Put in several and you can have different ones for each desktop.
>
> Bottom line, due to all the possible combos of the above, is you have
>the ability to make your own themes. So who needs
>
>http://kde.themes.org/themes.phtml?action=search&themetxt=&submit=Search&ve
>rids%5B%5D=KDE2.0&odby=download&disptype=norm&numthemes=10&showmod=on
>
>--
>Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
